Chen Lingxi slowly poured spiritual qi into the stone shaped like a flying dagger.
The spiritual qi emerged from his dantian, traveled along the meridians of his right arm, and seeped through his palm into the stone.
A faint layer of light shimmered across the stone's surface. The glow was exceedingly weak; it flashed once, then sank away.
The spiritual qi vanished like a stone into the sea, with no further reaction.
Chen Lingxi frowned and urged a little more spiritual qi into it.
The stone trembled slightly, and that faint glow lit up for another instant. Then the spiritual qi vanished like a clay ox entering the sea, silently dissipating deep within the stone, nowhere to be found.
He tried seven or eight times, every attempt yielding the same result.
The stone was like a ferocious beast that could never be fed its fill, swallowing every strand of spiritual qi he sent into it without revealing the slightest hint of wonder.
Chen Lingxi withdrew his hand and lowered his head to look at the stone in his palm.
"Looks like my spiritual qi is too weak to activate it."
A measure of understanding dawned on him.
This stone was certainly no ordinary object.
"Once I reach the Fourth Floor of Qi Circulation, perhaps I'll be able to uncover its secret."
He closed his fingers around the stone, anticipation appearing in his eyes. Then, with a flicker of thought, the stone vanished from his palm and slipped into his Universe Bag.
He sat down cross-legged and sank his consciousness into the Divine Chamber.
Within the void of the Divine Chamber, a line of golden tadpole-script characters stood clearly before his eyes—[Thorough Awakening Replenishment Progress: 95.1%].
Less than five percent remained.
He opened his eyes, took a Blood-Qi Pill from his